Counties in South Dakota that I have Visited

There are 66 Counties in South Dakota – “The Mount Rushmore State“

Also be sure to see my United States County Counting Page for the rest of the states.

I have visited 18 Counties = 27.3% of Counties in South Dakota

Counties visited are colored-in; counties still needing to be visited are blank.  Map created using Mob Rule.

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Twelve Mile Circle Articles Featuring Places in South Dakota

Markers designate the South Dakota locations featured in Twelve Mile Circle articles.

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Counties in South Dakota

Below are the 67 counties in South Dakota. Although infrequent, counties sometimes do change so please let me know if any of this information is out of date and I will update it. Those counties that I have visited are highlighted in Red. Readers can also link to any articles manually in this section if the map isn’t working.

1. Aurora
2. Beadle
3. Bennett: Pole of Inaccessibility
4. Bon Homme
5. Brookings
6. Brown
7. Brule
8. Buffalo
9. Butte: Real Center of the Nation; Fake Center of the Nation
10. Campbell: Not Fusion, CONfusion
11. Charles Mix
12. Clark
13. Clay: Smallest county in South Dakota (412 square miles).
14. Codington
15. Corson: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
16. Custer: Crazy Horse Memorial; Pronghorn & Bison; Begging Burro
17. Davison: The Corn Palace
18. Day
19. Deuel
20. Dewey: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe; Time Zone Limits
21. Douglas
22. Edmunds
23. Fall River: Hot Springs Everywhere; Mammoth Site
24. Faulk
25. Grant
26. Gregory
27. Haakon: Cactus
28. Hamlin
29. Hand: An Arm and a Leg
30. Hanson
31. Harding
32. Hughes: State Capital on Time Zone Boundary
33. Hutchinson
34. Hyde
35. Jackson
36. Jerauld
37. Jones: Smallest county population in South Dakota (1,193 people in 2000 Census): Murdo Mystery
38. Kingsbury
39. Lake
40. Lawrence
41. Lincoln
42. Lyman
43. Marshall
44. McCook
45. McPherson: Least Visited U.S. Counties
46. Meade: Largest county in South Dakota (3,471 square miles).
47. Mellette
48. Miner
49. Minnehaha: Largest county population in South Dakota (148,281 people in 2000 Census).
50. Moody
51. Oglala Lakota (formerly Shannon): Wounded Knee; Oglala Sioux Tribe
52. Pennington: Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Badlands National Park; Spearfish Canyon; Firehouse Brewing; Pigtail Auto Loop
53. Perkins
54. Potter: An Obscure Gettysburg
55. Roberts: Coteau des Prairies
56. Sanborn
57. Spink
58. Stanley
59. Sully
60. Todd: Rosebud Sioux Tribe
61. Tripp
62. Turner
63. Union
64. Walworth
65. Yankton
66. Ziebach: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

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Quick Facts About South Dakota

• Location: West North Central United States. See map above.
• Size⁽¹⁾: 75,811 square miles. South Dakota is the 16th largest state. The next larger state is Nebraska and the next smaller state is North Dakota.
• Population⁽²⁾: 882,235 people. South Dakota is the 46th most populous state. The next more populous state is Delaware and the next less populous state is North Dakota.
• Population Density: 11.6 people per square mile. South Dakota is the 46th most densely populated state. The next more densely populated state is New Mexico and the next less densely populated state is North Dakota.
• Bordering States: South Dakota shares a border with 6 states: North Dakota; Montana; Wyoming; Nebraska; Iowa and Minnesota.
• Admission to the Union: November 2, 1889. South Dakota was the 40th state admitted to the Union, after North Dakota and before Montana.
• Capital: Pierre.
• Highest Point: 7,242 feet at Black Elk Peak (formerly Harney Peak). See SummitPost’s Black Elk Peak page.
• Lowest Point: 966 feet at Big Stone Lake, Roberts County.
• Government website: State of South Dakota Official Home Page.
• Official Tourism website: South Dakota Tourism.
• Still not enough? See Wikipedia’s South Dakota page.

Sources:

(1) Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by area. Land area only.
(2) Wikipedia: List of states and territories of the United States by population. Estimated population on July 1, 2019.